Monthly Archives: September 2008

Sunday morning I went on a group ride from Brisbane over Mount Cootha and around Gap Creek. I managed to get very sunburnt but had a great time. I felt sorry for a girl behind the group who fell off the singletrack whilst clipped into her pedals but she made a loud and dramatic high pitched “eeeeep” as she fell that I couldn’t help laughing. (She was fine)… After watching some friends practice a climb out of a creekbed (steep rise over a root) I waited for them to go home and had another two attempts on a dare from Bridget. The first of which was completely hopeless and the second attempt I tried to be clever using a different technique but lost momentum at the critical moment and fell heavily on my back across a large rocky ridge knocking … Continue reading →

My previous car had a towball so I had the option of fitting my bike onto a towball mounted bike rack or folding down the rear seat and putting it into the car. Unfortunately my new car doesn’t have a towbar and whilst I can still fit one bike (and sometimes two) into the back with the rear seats down, a third really starts to push things. The other issue with putting a bike into the back of the car is that after an endurance race the bikes are typically wet and/or covered in mud. Enter the strap-on rack. My riding partner bought a strap on rack from a local bike store which strapped underneath the car, the top of the bootlid and to the sides. And the bikes rested on a plastic lug that sat on a pole fastened … Continue reading →